Man pleads guilty to heroin delivery charge in fatal overdose

A Detroit man pleaded guilty Wednesday to a reduced heroin delivery charge in a case in which he was accused of supplying a fatal dose of the drug to a Cambridge Township man last year.

Brandon Eugean Davis, 28, will face up to a 20-year prison term when he is sentenced Nov. 14 in Lenawee County Circuit Court. The original charge of delivery of a controlled substance causing death carried a maximum life prison term.

Chief Assistant Lenawee County Prosecutor Scott Baker said he believes the reduction to a heroin delivery charge is a fair resolution to the case. Some weaknesses in the case developed recently during a continued investigation, he said.

Davis was charged in November last year with causing the death of 31-year-old Logan Reo Morrow. He was found dead at his parent’s home in Cambridge Township on April 4, 2012.

Morrow’s girlfriend testified at a hearing in January that she was with Morrow when they bought heroin from Davis at a Romulus motel the morning of April 4, 2012. Charlene Malin-Fry of Belleville testified she had purchased heroin from Davis 100 to 150 times before that date.

She testified to seeing Davis hand over 24 “packets” of heroin when she gave him $240 cash. She and Morrow then injected heroin at the motel, she said. They later used more heroin, she said, before she left him at his home in Cambridge Township.

Davis is already serving a prison term for an attempted drug delivery conviction in Wayne County. He was sentenced in June 2012 to a one- to five-year prison term.